With their essay Zombie Media, Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka approach media archaeology with the aim of making it into an art methodology. Following a presentation of their ideas, the Vilém Flusser Theory Award nominees invite participants to enact the process of circuit bending: Participants will disassemble battery powered devices such as toys to subsequently perform with their customised instruments.
In this workshop members of the group HONF teach science through an artistic approach in order to demonstrate that science doesn’t have to be expensive, dangerous or inaccessible nor only possible with a lab. Participants will learn how to make their own slant culture, colour it with natural dyes and make a test tube rack from paper. At the end everyone is invited to take their slant culture home and pass on the experience, technique and culture to others.
As a follow up of the workshop Reclaim the Screens! during transmediale.10 and based on the Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010 we explore how artists, curators and creative people can utilise the urban screens infrastructure as social vision panels. What is the communicative, intercultural potential of public screens? Which socio-aesthetic forms of interaction enable a dialogue between different local scenes, how can we engage the public in the creative process to contribute to local community building?
Our identities are redefined as diffused, open and emergent, perceivable yet elusive, ephemeral yet drastically present, single yet multiple, localised yet ubiquitous. During the workshop participants will create a connective emergent "Identity" from scratch.
Wikipedia is an example for how Open Culture has developed inspiring text-based collaborative models whilst successful models for open collaboration on visual culture remain an exception. With a book, a blog and a set of workshops Wikipedia Illustrated seeks to develop a methodology for contributing creative-commons licensed illustrations to Wikipedia.
In their workshop and discussion Galia and Mushon will address central questions around the lacking and dated visual appearance of Wikipedia and also reveal certain surprising and complicated dynamics of Open Culture.
In this audiovisual performance Rosa Menkman reflects on the PAL signal and its supposed end. Although PAL is now obsolete and outdated, it still lives on indirectly in newer technologies like the DVB signal. The Collapse of PAL is an homage to the typical artefacts of the analogue signal, which Rosa Menkman captured using feedback, image bending techniques, a broken digital camera, digital compression, video bending devices and a game console. The soundtrack is crafted using the sounds of a Cracklebox, an old Casio keyboard, European telephone signals, Morse code etc.
This programme presents seven contemporary positions addressing television and its successor, the Internet. Starting comically and absurdly, these short films ultimately climax into horror as professionals and amateurs expose their vulnerability to the camera in found footage clips à la YouTube and artificially staged scenes.
This programme juxtaposes two films that, each with its own absurdity, document cornerstones in the development of telecommunications. The 1940s educational film Dial Comes to Town taught people how to use the direct dial telephone, while today – regardless of the time difference – workers in call centres outsourced to India instruct British and American callers on how to use their technical devices via service hotlines.
This programme addresses the perpetual simultaneity of war and peace. The two selected works, the short film Is This a Good Way to Start a War and the feature Where Is Where? both approach the topic by mixing documentary and fictional narrative techniques.
